SCUM Manifesto (1967)
SCUM Manifesto is a 1967 feminism book written by Valerie Solanas.
Valerie Solanas self-published this incendiary tract in 1967, a year before she shot Andy Warhol. The pamphlet argues, in cold and furious prose, that men have degraded human life and that women should seize control, automate labor, and abolish money. Readers still argue over how much is a literal call to arms and how much is savage satire. Solanas wrote from poverty and the margins, and the writing carries that rage. Some passages read as startlingly prescient about technology and gender; others are built to outrage. It remains a lightning rod in the history of radical feminism.
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What is SCUM Manifesto about?
Valerie Solanas self-published this incendiary tract in 1967, a year before she shot Andy Warhol. The pamphlet argues, in cold and furious prose, that men have degraded human life and that women should seize control, automate labor, and abolish money. Readers still argue over how much is a literal call to arms and how much is savage satire. Solanas wrote from poverty and the margins, and the writing carries that rage. Some passages read as startlingly prescient about technology and gender; others are built to outrage. It remains a lightning rod in the history of radical feminism.
When was SCUM Manifesto published?
SCUM Manifesto was published in 1967.
Who made SCUM Manifesto?
SCUM Manifesto was written by Valerie Solanas.
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Mary Harron's film I Shot Andy Warhol dramatizes Valerie Solanas and her collision with the Factory, Lili Taylor playing her with wounded ferocity. The Velvet Underground's debut album conjures the same downtown New York that surrounded and shaped her, all glamour and menace. It is a record of the exact scene she moved through and then turned against.